| Digital Poetics: The Making Of E-Poetries | 
 enlarge | Author: Loss Glazier
Publisher: University Alabama Press
Category: Book
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Pages: 320
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 0.7
ISBN: 0817310754
Dewey Decimal Number: 808.10285
EAN: 9780817310752
ASIN: 0817310754
Publication Date: December 6, 2008 (In 17 Days)
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In Digital Poetics, Loss Glazier argues that the increase in computer technology and accessibility, specifically the World Wide Web, has created a new and viable place for the writing and dissemination of poetry. Glazier's work not only introduces the reader to the current state of electronic writing but also outlines the historical and technical contexts out of which electronic poetry has emerged and demonstrates some of the possibilities of the new medium. Glazier examines three principal forms of electronic textuality: hypertext, visual/kinetic text, and works in programmable media. He considers avantgarde poetics and its relationship to the on-line age, the relationship between web "pages" and book technology, and the way in which certain kinds of web constructions are in and of themselves a type of writing. With convincing alacrity, Glazier argues that the materiality of electronic writing has changed the idea of writing itself. He concludes that electronic space is the true home of poetry and, in the 20th century, has become the ultimate "space of poesis." Digital Poetics will attract a readership of scholars and students interested in contemporary creative writing and the potential of electronic media for imaginative expression.
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Poetry beyond the printed page November 21, 2007
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If twentieth-century art managed to carve new possibilities for painting, sculpture, and music, it was by dropping the ideological baggage of narrative, says Loss Pequeno Glazier in Digital Poetics, and writing may be the last theater of this confrontation.
The digital medium is a real and present form of writing, one that has changed the idea of writing itself, he says. The web is now part of a transformed social fabric and writing will never be the same again.
Glazier founded and directs the Electronic Poetry Center (EPC) at SUNY Buffalo. He brings enormous erudition and great passion to this subject to challenge whatever notions we may have of 'poetry' and whatever notions we may have of communication technology.
E-poetry consists of innovative poetic practices in various digital media: It's writing/programming that engages the procedures of poetry to investigate the materiality of language, Glazier says. He cautions that one cannot assume that because a work is in digital format it is by definition digitally innovative.
Digital poetry, or e-poetry, includes a number of specific qualities. These include:
* works that cannot be adequately delivered via traditional paper publishing or cannot be displayed on paper.
* texts with certain structural or operative forms not reproducible in paper or in any other non-digital medium (works employing hyperlinks, kinetic elements, multi-layered features, programmable elements, and events).
* digital media works that have some relation to twentieth-century innovative practices.
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